JCQ 2.0 WORKSHOP at 4th ICOH Work & CVD, March 8-9, 2005
PLEASE RSVP to jcqcenter@uml.edu and Robert_Karasek@uml.edu about your
Workshop participation immediately. Workshop meeting location has a
limited capacity, so please notify us of your intent to participate now.
TIME/LOCATION: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm March 8, Dinner (TBA), 9:00 - 11:30 am
March 9th (prior to ICOH), at the 4th ICOH Newport Beach, California,
Conference Location (check conference Website for detailed directions).
!!"JUMP START:" NEW DEVELOPMENTS UNDERWAY TOWARD WORKSHOP GOAL OF
DEVELOPING JCQ 2.0:
In recent weeks a major opportunity was presented to the JCQ Center,
which "speeds up" our design process. The Korean occupational health and safety community offered to field a 9,000 person study to pilot a new JCQ 2.0, if a version could be quickly developed. The JCQ International Board responded quickly to this opportunity, and with some intense Board discussions, produced a "Proto-Pilot" which was an adaptation of a "sample idea" posted on the JCQ Center website (www.jcqcenter.org à JCQ 2.0 à section IV: A sample JCQ 2.0).
This "Proto-Pilot" is of course only a beginning. These new scales together with the old core, should certainly help us to understand the usefulness of some of the new ideas. But with the limited time for development, and limited communication with JCQ Users, the proto-pilot represents a "work-in-progress." There was certainly no time to make final decisions, and most of the major discussion topics could not be reviewed, by either the Board or the User's who participated. However, the reality of a "New Data" coming in the near future can "jump starts" the re-design dialogue. The fact we now have some "concrete anchor" in the form of some new JCQ 2.0 gives us a more secure platform to address the very broad theoretical and methodological discussion on measurement of some of the global economy and new psychological demands topics outlined in the JCQ 2.0 website documents. To promote this discussion we are placing a record of some of the commentary of "proto-pilot" discussion on the website, along with the "Proto-Pilot."
We are suggesting an Agenda for the Workshop below that can be a combination of theoretical discussion and review of practical alternatives. This agenda can be changed with consensus input from User's and from the Board, so please forward your suggestions.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Afternoon March 8th: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
I. Workshop Introduction: Designing JCQ 2.0
A. Website material highlights: JCQ Rationale, Progress from Toronto and Dusseldorf
B. Is a broader theory needed for our global economic challenge?
Could the new Stress-Disequilibrium theory help?
II. Possible Examples for a New JCQ 2.0
A. The new "Proto-Pilot" JCQ 2.0 in Korea
B. The website sample new JCQ 2.0: topics: core size, alternative data collection approaches
III. Discussion of the Broad Themes:
A. Discussion of the Broad Themes. Review of goals in Rational Section
I-4 New Dimensions
B. Development of task groups for review of instrument alternatives - continued in Morning March 9
-- Short laptop session (bring yours): testing the JCQ Center website, and critique
Dinner - Location To Be announced - 7:00 pm, March 8th
Morning March 9th, 9:00 am to 11:30 am
IV. Detailed Scale Area Discussions and Work Groups
A. Brief cameo reviews of Existing Scales relevant to each of the JCQ
2.0 new areas
B. Alternative measurement approaches
a. Expert Questions, observation possibilities
b. Industry packages
c. "Scenarios" for abstract topics such as global economy impacts.
C. Formulation of new suggestions
V. Decision Status: JCQ 2.0
A. Accept modifications of the Proto-Pilot?
B. New directions to be explored: team development for another step,
if one is needed.
PLEASE REVIEW: JCQ 2.0 Basic Discussion Materials on our:
-! NEW JCQ WEBSITE:!- http://www.jcqcenter.org
Materials include: JCQ 2.0 Rationale; JCQ 2.0 Design, (soon: Proto-Pilot discussion)
Example; Minutes JCQ Workshop Toronto 2003.
This link will get you to a summary of the new materials
(do not forget to scroll to the remaining topics):
http://www.jcqcenter.org/JCQ%20version%202RationPropPartOne.html#4
Detailed Discussions
THEN, CONTACT DISCUSSION LEADERS:
1. DECISION LATITUDE: Chair - Paul Landsbergis <paul.landsbergis@mssm.edu>)
2. PSYCHOLOGICAL DEMANDS: Chair - Norito Kawakami <norito@md.okayama-u.ac.jp> )
3. SOCIAL SUPPORT Chair - "Jeffrey V. Johnson" <jvjohnson@verizon.net> (includes broad links to decision latitude/ job insecurity group):
PARTICIPANT ACTIVITY BEFORE WORKSHOP: Join in one of the scale discussion groups (see communication details below)
a. Review the materials, and contact a member/chair of one of the discussion groups.
b. Make suggestions for modification of the proposed new JCQ 2.0, and give a short rationale, and specific new questions.
c. We will summarize new suggestions and discussion comments, and post them on the Website as an appendix to the materials above
d. Respond to other User's comments
We look forward to seeing all of you at the JCQ 2.0 Workshop this March!
Robert Karasek,
Director, JCQ Center